Click the Erase brush to remove smaller details from the photo. You can adjust the Sensitivity Bar to change the strength of the magic wand. Use the Magic Wand to remove the background from the subject. Click the image without the blurred background, then click Erase. Now I'm going to bring my subject back into focus. Photo by Kharytonova Antonina from UnsplashĬlick Adjust located at the right side of the studio, then drag the circle underneath Blur to make the image blurry. One photo will be used for the background, and the other photo will only have the subject. I'm going to make a copy of the photo by clicking Duplicate. Step 2: Duplicate the Image and Blur the Background Click Get Started, then upload a photo or paste a URL to an image.
Kapwing is a photo and video editor you can access for free online. I'll be using Kapwing to create a bokeh effect on a photo.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a bokeh effect online! Photos with a Christmas tree, string lights, and city lights in the background work well with this tutorial. There are options to create a bokeh effect in photos from your camera roll. Colorful backgrounds with lights typically create photos with good bokeh. According to Photography Life, bokeh is the quality of blurry parts of an image rendered by a camera lens and the quality of reflected points of light. The word bokeh comes from the Japanese term "boke-aji," meaning blur quality. Creating a bokeh effect is a great way to add a soft and dreamy aesthetic to a background.
Just click on any of the thumbnails to download a full high resolution version of the overlay.Achieving beautiful photo effects used to take expensive photography gear, but thanks to online tools, anyone can add stunning effects like bokeh to their photos. The sky is the limit! ☁️ Free Photoshop Bokeh Overlaysīelow you can see thumbnails for the 220 Free Bokeh overlays. You can use the same one at multiple places, erase part of one, rotate them, resize them. What you'll want to pay most attention to is the size and distribution of the bokeh in the overlay.Īlso remember that you can easily add more than one overlay to an image. You can pretty easily colorize the overlay layer using Photoshop and have it be the color that you want. When choosing the perfect bokeh overlay for your photo, don't worry too much about the color of the bokeh. And you also can apply a hue/saturation adjustment layer clipped to the overlay layer to change the overall hue (color) of the overlay.
You can apply a gaussian blur to the overlay layer to make the bokeh more diffuse and blurry. You'll add the overlay as a new layer on top of your image and then change the layer blend mode to Screen. Very similar principles apply to using these bokeh overlays. I wrote up a post about how to use texture overlays in Photoshop. I checked the Colorize option and I selected a Hue value that approximates the color of the eye makeup.Īnd here's a screenshot that should help illustrate those steps: The model in that fashion portrait is Shannon Baker.
Added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, clipped to the overlay layer so that it only affects the overlay.Applied at slight gaussian blur to the overlay layer.Rotated and resized the layer so that it falls at the right place for the photo.
Here's the summary of the steps I've taken to add the overlay: